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Since the independence of India, Kashmir has been a major concern for not just India but also the world. The issue of Kashmir still is a crucial issue discussed across forums in the global arena and is one of the major hindrances in improving relationship with India’s neighbour and kin of one time. Much has been written about Kashmir and the separatist movement in Kashmir. But the beautifully scripted account of the brutality with which the separatist movement is carried on till date has no precedence. The book, Curfewed Nights, gives an honest, crude, and truthful account of what goes on in the paradise of India which is under the spell of the separatist movement.

The author of the book, Basharat Peer, being a Kashmiri himself has related to each and every detail provided in the book from the first hand experiences gathered by him. Since independence of India, many Kashmiri youths have been mesmerised by the terrorism to the extent that they want to join the terrorist organisations even without thinking about their families or themselves. They have illusioned godfathers in the leaders of such terrorist outfits. In fact, the author was sent out of Kashmir by his family, just to keep him away from these painful romances with the militants.

The book, Curfewed Night, has a lot of heart rending accounts of how a mother watches her son who is forced to hold an exploding bomb or how a poet discovers his religion when his entire family is killed or how the politicians are tortured inside the refurbished torture chambers or how villages have been rigged with landmines which kills innocent civilians, and how temples have converted into army bunkers while ancient Sufi shrines have been decapitated in bomb blasts. This painful saga of humanity and human crucifiction in the name of religion and jihad was by RHI in the year 2009. The book is available in paperback.

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About the Author

The author, Basharat Peer, is an Indian journalist born in Kashmir but currently based in New York. He has been associated with various publications such as Rediff, Tehelka, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, FT Magazine, The New Yorker, The National, and The Caravan as a journalist. He currently runs his blog named India Ink.

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Top customer reviews

Written beautifully, It portrays the life of every kashmiri youth of that time, As i am the one myself, i find it as my story . Author is more or less describing me, or demystify But some parts are untold.

Its difficult to describe how good and how important a book Curfewed Night is. Most Indians think they have a fair understanding of the conflict in Kashmir and to be honest, I too was one of them. However Basharat Peer's excellent book made me realise how little I knew about what was going on in one of the most beautiful states in our country.

Basharat had done a very good job in piecing together the different pieces that make up the Kashmir puzzle and the amount of research that he has done adds that crucial element of authenticity. The book is on occassion, painful to read. There were times when I had to stop reading & think about what Basharat had just shared, unable to go forward because I was afraid of the horrors of what was to come. His writing takes you on a journey that not many outside Kashmir have been through but one that we must all take.

Its the first book I have ever read on Kashmir & I do hope that it is not the last book that Basharat writes on Kashmir.

I read this book recently and it is really good. Author wrote it in very simple language and first fifty pages show you a picture about kashmir in early 1950s. This book is similar to "The Kite Runner" written by khaled hosseini that discuss beauty of afghanistan before soviet invasion and taliban devastation. After reading this book, you will definitely understand the struggle of kashmiris for freedom and Independence. However, the climax of book is quite odd and update is required. Finally, I learned many things form this book and it clears lot of misconsumptions about kashmir which lies in many Indians.